Calling asynchronous Firebase APIs from Swift
Callbacks, Combine, and async/await
Peter Friese
Hi! I'm Peter - Developer Advocate at Google on the 🔥 Firebase team.
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Using async/await in SwiftUI
A lot of the code we write has to deal with asynchronous behaviour. Fetching data from the disk, sending a request to a remote API, or downloading an image - all these operations take time, even on your super-fast, low-latency working-from-home netwo...
Firebase Authentication: Migrating User Data
This article is part of a series of articles that explores building a real-world application using SwiftUI, Firebase, and a couple of other technologies. Here is an overview of the series and what we're building: In part 1 of the series, we focussed...
Firebase and the new SwiftUI 2 Application Life Cycle
For the longest time, iOS developers have used UIApplicationDelegate to handle application startup and other lifecycle events in their apps. At WWDC 2020, Apple made some significant changes to how apps participate in the application lifecycle. In t...
The Ultimate Guide to the SwiftUI 2 Application Life Cycle
For the longest time, iOS developers have used AppDelegates as the main entry point for their applications. With the launch of SwiftUI2 at WWDC 2020, Apple has introduced a new application life cycle that (almost) completely does away with AppDelegat...
Updating Data in Firestore from a SwiftUI App
In this series of articles about SwiftUI and Firebase, we’re building a simple CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) application that allows users to manage their book library. In previous episodes, I showed you how to fetch data from Cloud Firestore ...
Fetching API Keys from Property List Files
Many APIs require developers to provide an API key and/or API secret in order to be able to access the API. This is both to identify the app that is accessing the API, and to limit access to the API for apps that are known to the API. Both the API ke...
Adding Data to Firestore from a SwiftUI app
Previously in this series of articles about SwiftUI and Firebase, we talked about fetching data from Cloud Firestore and how to map from Firestore documents to Swift structs using Swift's Codable API. You might recall that we also introduced a way t...